Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...playing the role of Plimpton the sophisticated writer who is playing the role of Plimpton the ten-thumbed quarterback. Alda looks enough like George-and is clearly no better as an athlete-but his performance conveys little of the book's vicarious terrors. The film depends for its humor on a sequence of listless sight gags: Alda sprawling on his face during calisthenics; Alda jamming his fingers on the snap from the center; Alda lobbing a wobbly pass into a conveniently placed waterbucket...
Then I decided to start a paper, in March of '38. I had been in court, I had listened to several cases, I thought some of the stuff was very humorous. When you read it in the daily papers they seemed to take the whole thing serious. It didn't appear very serious to me, if a man was chasing a prostitute through an alley, a policeman chasing a prostitute through an alley, or two or three of them, jumping over barrels and she climbing over fences, trying to capture a girl for soliciting or something like that, I thought...
...different kind of a newspaper. I went along for a few months, for four or five months, depending on the advertising, but the advertisers in the area weren't too responsive. Eventually I moved deeper and deeper into the phase that I wanted to go, that is towards more humor, then every story became a humorous story, everything had a humorous angle to it, regardless of what the story might...
...course, I got deeper and deeper into the direction which I was travelling, humor. And it became a hilarious paper; people would scream at it. That's when the Church; I guess they didn't like the idea of the headlines, they thought it should be the old Quaker line such as the old Boston Post, or something. Uncle Ned, or whatever it was. So they put the crush on me, I lost a lot of sales, through South Boston, especially in the Catholic area, in fact they invaded the South End area...
...entertainment, Dunster's production of The Imaginary Invalid is rather successful. The good humor of the play, complemented by the translation of Robert Edgar and John Russo, makes the play move quickly along. In addition, there are three "interludes" of song and dance which add to the general festivity. But if the production held any greater ambitions than these, it seems to have lost them along...